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Friday, December 16, 2011

Zecher Kofer Livrachah

A great man of reason and integrity has unfortunately succumbed to cancer at age 62. We will sorely miss him for his candid, witty and outspoken remarks against religion. A sadness crept into me that has accompanied the whole day already.

What made Hitchens unique was that he spoke with his heart what was on his mind. He was candid, honest enough to commend his adversaries in debates (unless they really didn't want to listen). A fellow kofer as well-read, eloquent and charming will be hard to find.

Below, I linked a video that gives you an impression of his astuteness, wit, eloquence and passion:

"I’d noticed a touch of decline here and there, but one puts these things down to Anno Domini and the acquirement of seniority. A bit of a stomach gives a chap a position in society. A glass of refreshment, in my view, never hurt anybody. This walking business is overrated: I mastered the art of doing it when I was quite small, and in any case, what are taxis for? Smoking is a vice, I will admit, but one has to have a hobby."

Now as an atheist, I assume Hitchens had the highest regard for science. And any expert physician would have told him that he was clearly killing himself. As we know now, he would be dead a little over four years after writing these words. Yet he simply jokes, chuckles and giggles about it all. That's what atheism is really all about. Addiction. Denying reality. Jokes. LOL.

Ask the Epples about their other adopted son, Douglas Epple, two years younger than myself. Why was he repeatedly admitted to psychiatric hospitals shortly after I left? Why has he never been employed?

So it's their fault he's unemployed and it's the fault of a woman you harassed as well as Boces that you're unemployed. I see. You say in your interview that there's no work for IT people. Funny thing is, the classified ads and help wanted websites list a diverse range of IT positions that need to be filled. It seems that your statement applies to you as well:

Boces isn't an atheist organization. As you indicated, BOCES does not expel pro-Life students. Only those who advocate mass murder such as yourself. You lied during your interview when you stated there aren't IT jobs available. Your own letter to your parents when you left home does not indicate any abuse or anti-semitism on their part whatsoever. If anything, it indicates a close relationship that you severed in the typical fashion of a child being indoctrinated into a cult. The evidence points in favor of your mother.

no, JP. kim jong il LIMITED peoples rights and freedoms while commanding them to accept his greatness dogmatically. hitchens fought to EXPAND peoples rights while rejecting all dogma. of course as a deluded religious fundie you more closely resemble the former as you embrace dogmatic nonsense absent evidence and desire to limit human rights up to and including killing people for the 'sin' of wanting to put their penis in a different place than you do. you and kim yong il are two peas in the same pod. and hitchens despised you both.

Lenin was a brutal dictator who would definitely have felt comfortable with Kim Jong Il.

Lenin delineated action against defiers of the decreed Bolshevik removal of Orthodox Church valuables: "We must... put down all resistance with such brutality that they will not forget it for several decades... The greater the number of representatives of the reactionary clergy and reactionary bourgeoisie we succeed in executing... the better." As a result of this letter, historian Orlando Figes estimates that perhaps 8,000 priests and laymen were executed.

I seriously see little distinction between Hitchens and Kim Jong Il, other than the fact that Kim Jong Il had the good luck to inherit a small country plus he apparently didn't smoke, therefore lived almost a decade longer. Both were equally fanatic and evil.

Hi UK,On the topic of inspirations . . .I was trying to find an e-mail address but could not, so I hope you don't mind me posting this here. Your blog was one of the inspirations for the post I just wrote. Please check it out if you are able to. http://coinlaundryblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/dh-to-my-tms-what-got-me-blogging.htmlCL